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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(b) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.
(c) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(d) To buy yams for his three wives.

2. Why does Okonkwo insult Osugo at a meeting by calling him a woman?
(a) Okonkwo calls Osugo a woman because Osugo has no titles and contradicted what Okonkwo had been saying.
(b) Osugo is talking in a feminine voice.
(c) Osugo is making womanly hand gestures during the meeting.
(d) Osugo is complaining and whining.

3. How does Nwoye's mother treat Ikemenfuna?
(a) She is very kind to him and treats him like one of her own children.
(b) She makes him work like a slave.
(c) She mistreats him, letting him go for days with nothing to eat.
(d) She ignores him, resenting that he is someone else's child.

4. What is the only way a young man can build a barn of his own if his father has no yams?
(a) Going to his mother and his father's wives for help.
(b) Planting coco-yams.
(c) Saving his money to buy seeds.
(d) Share-cropping.

5. How does Okonkwo react to the disastrous growing season that destroy all his yams and the yams of his people?
(a) He cries and sinks into despair.
(b) His heart is broken from the loss of his crop, leaving him depressed and suicidal.
(c) He gives up being a farmer, and begins looking for a new trade.
(d) He feels he can survive anything, since he has survived this disastrous year.

6. What are the crops that are considered women's crops by the people of Umuofia?
(a) Palms, bitter-leaf, foo foo
(b) Yams, kola nuts, greens
(c) Coco-yams, beans, cassava
(d) Gourds, bananas, oil bean

7. When Okonkwo was a boy, his father, Unoka, consults Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills, about why his crops always fail.. What reply did the Oracle give?
(a) That Unoka sows his yams on exhausted land rather than making the effort to clear new land.
(b) That he angers his ancestors and they plague his land.
(c) That he should stay home and offer sacrifices to the gods.
(d) That Unoka has offended the gods and that is why his crop fail.

8. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?
(a) A sacred amulet that the priestess made for Ezinma the day she was born. Ezinma was to wear it around her neck until the day she died.
(b) The cloth which was used to clean Ezinma after she was born. It was buried after the birth as a good luck charm that would keep the infant safe from harm. After digging it up, the child was to be washed with it once again to stay safe.
(c) Ezinma's iyi-uwa, a smooth pebble wrapped in a dirty rag which links Ezinma to the spirit world. It is believed that if the iyi-uwa is found and destroyed, Ezinma will not die.
(d) A basket of kola nuts which were buried when Ezinma was born to trapped evil spirits. It was supposed to be dug up after a time and burned, so the evil spirits would not kill Ezinma.

9. What is the shameful death Unoka endures?
(a) Drowning in his own vomit after too much palm-wine.
(b) Dying of the abomination of swollen stomach and limbs, never to be buried in the earth.
(c) Starvation due to his many failed crops.
(d) Beheading because of his many unpaid debts.

10. What happens to twins born in Umuofia?
(a) They are considered good luck and raised by the priestess of the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves.
(b) They are drowned.
(c) They are revered as sacred above all other infants.
(d) They are placed in earthenware pots and thrown away in the forest.

11. Why does Okonkwo worry about his son, Nwoye?
(a) He thinks his son is too aggressive, which might lead him into danger.
(b) He thinks his son is too boastful, which may turn others against him.
(c) Okonkwo thinks his son is too much like his mother and weak like his grandfather.
(d) He thinks his son will not become a musician like he wants him to.

12. The first day of the new year is celebrated with feasting and fellowship. What takes place on the second day of the new year?
(a) A gathering in the marketplace for the preparation of the new yams for planting.
(b) The gathering of all the village musicians for singing and dancing.
(c) The great wrestling match between Okonkwo's village and their neighbors.
(d) A play enacting the planting of yams put on by the children of all the villages in Umuofia.

13. Who is Okonkwo's father?
(a) Okoye
(b) Ikemefuna
(c) Amalinze
(d) Unoka

14. What are the women's duties after the yams are planted?
(a) They make bamboo woven hats for the farmers working in the hot sun.
(b) They make meals for the men working in the fields.
(c) They plant kola nuts between the yams, and weed the yams every day.
(d) They plant maize, melons, and beans between the mounds. They also weeded the farm three times per planting season.

15. Where does Obierika send one of his relatives to get a fat goat to give to his in-laws during the uri?
(a) To a neighboring goat herder known for his fat goats
(b) The wonderful market in Umuike
(c) The goat farm in the village
(d) To the hills where wild goats roam free

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chielo bring Ezinma?

2. What are the traditional events when night falls and it is time to end Obierika's daughter's uri?

3. Under what circumstances will the people of Umuofia consult Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves?

4. How does Ekwefi make the medicine she hopes would cure Ezinma?

5. Why is Umuofia feared by all its neighbors?

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